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Cnn. she did talk on abc's "the view." there is a bit of a double standard. but every media organization makes its own judgment whether you have gone too far. abc say because she touched a third rail of racism and she and the lucrative show that they brought back had to go. >> maria: you know, i was looking at one piece earlier. it was about keith oberman and the incredible tweets that he's had. f bombs everywhere, howie and the criticisms and f bombs against president trump consistently. he just got an expanded role at espn owned by disney. >> right. yeah. the things that he had been tweeting...

He left and came back. the bottom line is, if president trump was not the target, valorie jarrett was the target, would espn feel free to bring somebody like oberman back to talk about baseball and football. it depends. there's a media uproar when a liberal is under attack president the president may be so numb now to the kind of personal vicious criticism that he gets that sometimes his critics skate when they cross the line. >> maria: if you are donald trump supper -- supporter or thinker, it's a different standard.how about joy behar? comments she made on abc news. >> she had to be prodded ...

Kimmel? where are the apologies from those people that work for abc as well? you know, why haven't their showed been canned? they said some off-the-cuff stuff about our president. about conservatives. about people that support our president. >> maria: i was reading the keith oberhman tweets. i couldn't believe the things he said with the f bombs and the push-back on president trump. you heard howie kurtz mention joy behar. >> we had to block keith on twitter because he's so nasty. >> very nasty. >> i don't get the hypocrisy. we're going to open the conversation. i know valorie said this is a t...

I was completely surprised when abc decided to cancel the show because even though the ratings fell from its debut, it finished the season as one of the highest rated shows of the tv season, depending on what metric you look at, it was either the highest rated or the second highest rated show right behind "the big bang theory." so even though ratings had dropped, this was a show that was right at top of the ratings, and that they were centering their fall strategy on. so to have them cancel it as quickly as they did and for the reasons that they did i think it really did surprise me. i'm quite...

President overseeing development of drama series. channing dungy became the president of abc entertainment two and a half years ago. and as her abc official bio proudly states dungy has shepherded in a wide variety of programing including the most watched show on television, roseanne. knowing tv networks as i do, especially in the entertainment division, i expected abc to try to tough it out today and survive the crisis roseanne created because the show's ratings are so good. when roseanne tweeted this apology, i immediately said that this was a network forced apology using language that rosea...